Ango-Indians gather in India to mark fifty years

Hundreds of Anglo Indians from various parts of the world are meeting in the southern Indian city of Bangalore for their first major reunion in India itself.

The gathering is part of the fiftieth anniversary of India's independence.

An Anglo Indian came to be defined as a person born of a male parent of European descent.In the nineteen-forties there were at least two-hundred thousand Anglo-Indians, nearly all resident in India, now their numbers are reduced to about ten thousand.

The BBC Delhi correspondent says the mood of the reunion seems upbeat, but that some older Anglo-Indians are alarmed that the community's particular sense of identity seems less strong in the younger generation.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service